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Nine Below Zero

by: Sonny Boy Williamson His Harmonica & Houserockers

Trumpet (DRC-89)

Publication date: 1952

Topics: 78rpm, Blues, Boogie Woogie

Digitizing sponsor: Kahle/Austin Foundation

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Performer: Sonny Boy Williamson His Harmonica & Houserockers

Boogie vocal.

Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record.They are 2.0 mil truncated conical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated conical, 3.3 mil truncated conical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 482.0, Rolloff: -13.75.

The preferred version suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. is the equalized version recorded with the 2.0 mil truncated conical stylus, and has been copied to have the more friendly filename.

Matrix number: ACA2119
Catalog number: DRC-89

Other IDs from the record include: No. 166

Notes

The recording on the other side of this disc: Mighty Long Time

Addeddate: 2017-02-27 19:39:03

Boxid: IA1562119

Collection-catalog-number: GBIA0001652B

External-identifier: urn:matrix_no:ACA2119

External_metadata_update: 2019-04-08T23:23:34Z

Genre: Boogie Woogie
Blues

Identifier: 78_nine-below-zero_sonny-boy-williamson-his-harmonica--houserockers_gbia0001652b

Location: USA

Restored: True

Run time: 00:02:57

Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 1.4.0

Scanningcenter: George Blood, L.P.

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Reviewer: jt audio - - June 18, 2020
Subject: Restored Version

Lightly restored using iZotope RX7 Advanced

Reviewer: arc-claire - - July 7, 2017
Subject: Nine Below Zero, 1952

Influenced by Sonny Boy Williamson I's harmonica playing, Sonny Boy Williamson II, the lead singer and harmonica player on this track, began performing under his name in the early 1940s in order to ride the waves of his success. This 1952 recording for Mississippi's Trumpet Records features his own songwriting and expert blues harp playing. English blues band Nine Below Zero were named after the song in 1979.

A later, slower version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmgBQmB9bNc
Date source: http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/nc588976us

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